An accident occurred at Sadoff Iron and Metal where an employee was flighted by flight for life on Monday, July 15, 2013. / Aileen Andrews/The Reporter Media

Fond du Lac Fire Department crews were called to the business at 240 W. Arndt Street around 4:45 p.m. to help get an injured employee out of some machinery. The employee reportedly fell a significant distance.

A fire department ambulance crew transported a single patient to the east parking lot at Giddings & Lewis MAG.

A Flight for Life medical helicopter landed near Johnson and Macy streets just west of the Fond du Lac Police Department. Flight for Life left the parking lot around 5:40 p.m. and took the patient to a Milwaukee-area hospital, according to Rick Gerritson, acting fire captain.

“Our guys did a real good job of identifying significant needs (to get help for the injured employee),” Gerritson said.

There was no word Monday night on the extent of the person’s injuries or what caused the accident.